Here's a small writeup about the deck I used this week for the majority of my 21/25 Weekend Ranked run and score 2 legendary Divine Order packs.
Strategy
The game plan is to get some sticky creatures out early, like Marsh Walker and Pyramid Warden, to start trading up and gaining favor while keeping the board clear to make full use of your random removal. While your removal keeps trading 1 for 1, hit them with your big power cards like Moon-Crazed Cyclops and Giant Pangolin.
Guild Enforcer was the #1 threat to deal with in this meta, so the deck is tailored for it. Early game creatures to keep the board clear so lightning strike always hits what you what. Big creatures like Brazen Moose and Giant Pangolin to run over Guild Enforcer.
In summary, use early creatures and removal to get ahead on board, knock out big threats with your big cards, and get ahead on board to finish out the game.
God Power
Choose Animal Bond if you're facing a control matchup where you expect them to have a lot of removal. The badgers help keep board presence.
Choose Selena's Mark in aggro matchups where you expect to fight over board. Selena's Mark helps ping off stranglers, protected, and ward helping you maintain your board presence.
Cards
Creatures
- Marsh Walker, Pyramid Warden: Early sticky creatures that get the board early. Can be subbed for similar low cost well statted creatures like Wild Hog and Skeleton Heavy.
- Vanguard Axewoman: Great early removal, 1 mana for 2 damage. Can be played by itself to fill board too.
- Chiron, the Teacher: Relic removal is great for those pesky necroscepters around. The buff on Marsh Walker can win games.
- Underbrush Boar: Arguably one of the best 2 drops in the game. Big 3/3 body for 2 mana and attacks the turn it comes down. Great for killing something and leaving a nice body early
- Finnian Fruitbearer: Amazing stats early, being able to play a creature turn 1, after hit face and play Finnian nets you 4/5 stats early. Wins games if left unchecked.
- Celestial Stag: The recent fix being able to trigger on the same turn its played puts it on the same level as Miraculous Familiar. Good to fill out the curve, amazing refill being able to play a 1 drop with it in the same turn and get a card. Blessed can swing games too gaining the last favor needed to turn the tides.
- Agrodor Protector: Nice body with frontline, good for stemming aggro and catching up on board.
- Moon-Crazed Cyclops: Amazing when you have board, a must answer threat that can win you games on the spot
- Guild Enforcer: The Big Bag menance of this patch. 4 health and 2 armor is difficult to deal. Every deck needs an answer, check out my post on how : https://peakd.com/hive-173286/@meltysquid/gods-unchained-answering-guild-enforcer.
- Brazen Moose: Big body, 6/6 stats will run over any Guild Enforcer in your way.
- Giant Pangolin: 6/4 2 armor, blitz will leave your opponents in tears after you run over their Guild Enforcer. Pangolin is a nasty creature, immediately trades up and requires big answers to deal with it.
Removal
- Canopy Barrage, Lightning Strike: Both deal high damage at low cost to a random target. Great for dealing with big targets. You have to keep the board clear to reliable hit big creatures.
- Faeflame Blade: One of nature's best relics. Can pick off small creatures, pop protected, gain favor, and the confuse can swing games.
- The Hunt: Can deal with big creatures like Guild Enforcer or Giant Pangolin or clear a board of weakened creatures.
Other
- Aspect of the Pangolin: Everyone knows how OP armor is. Some decks can't answer a lot of armor. Being able to buff a frontliner with +3 armor can be an autowin.
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That's super impressive results! Great job!
Honestly weekend ranked is currently a crapshoot on how you match up with. After the recent influx of new players, mythic skill level has gotten a lot lower being diluted by the new players. You can see it the the top rankings, all the weekend results have gone up since you're more likely to face weaker players.
Also newer players are less likely to have stronger and probably more expensive cards.
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Good stuff. Sadly too poor to be able to get some of those cards. Surprised you didn't get 23.
fakemews recently posted a video on budget nature.